The
Demons are Coming!
The Demons are Coming!
“They had
as king over them the angel of
the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew
is Abaddon, and Greek,
Apollyon.”
(Revelation 9:11)
It may surprise
you that [Paul] revere did not
shout the phrase later attributed
to him, ‘The British are
coming!’ His [April 1775]
mission depended on secrecy, the
countryside was filled with
British army patrols, and most of
the Massachusetts colonists, were
predominantly English in ethnic
origin, still considered
themselves British. Revere’s
warning, according to eyewitness
accounts of the ride and
Revere’s own description,
was ‘The Regulars are coming
out.’”* Years later,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote
the phrase, “The British are
coming!” to dramatize
revere’s courageous ride in
a poem called “Paul
Revere’s Ride.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere [inserts mine])
Very few Americans
are aware that Revere’s
famous message warning was
created by a poet. Even fewer
people know that the entire world
is nearing the end of a global
war and demons are going to physically
appear on Earth before Jesus
returns. Of course, demons
(fallen angels) have lived on
Earth since the day Adam and Eve
sinned and increasingly, we see
the results of their predatory
efforts in the news every day.
The title of this study parallels
the warning message that Revere
gave in Longfellow’s poem
because the world needs to hear a
far more serious warning.
Revelation 9 predicts a time is
coming when Jesus will permit the
devil and his demons to leave the
spirit realm where they have been
confined. They will appear in the
skies over large cities and
descend in shows of magnificent
power and glory. The devil
will claim to be Almighty God.
For five months he and his angels
will do everything possible to
make the people of Earth believe
he is God and now lives among
men. After accomplishing this
objective, the devil will change
into his real character. He will
demand that one third of mankind
be slaughtered, and overnight, he
and his demons will take full
control of Earth. Most of
the people will receive his
tattoo (the mark of the beast)
and become slaves of a
supernatural pharaoh. Incredible
misery will follow. This sounds
like science fiction, but do not
be fooled. Once you understand
God’s purpose for permitting
this drama to unfold, it will
make perfect sense.
Predatory
Demons
From Adam’s
fall to Noah’s flood, evil
had permeated Earth like a virus.
The whole world had become so
degenerate after a mere 1,646
years, God concluded that the only
cure was total destruction.. The
same thing happened all over
again, albeit at a slower pace.
Once again, our modern world
society has become so degenerate
from the virus of sin that
destruction is the only cure. The
combination of sinful human
nature and predatory demons will
cause this destruction. “For
our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities,
against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly
realms [unseen or spiritual
realms ].” (Ephesians
6:12, insertion mine)
Human nature is
naturally rebellious toward
God’s laws. (Romans 8: 5-7)
The devil and his demons know
this because they, too, are
rebellious toward God and His
laws. Demons know that if a
person ignores and rejects the
prompting of the Holy Spirit to
do right, then he will succumb to
the temptation to do evil. Demons
know that human beings are light
a piece of metal caught between
two powerful magnets. The human
sinful nature causes us to be
naturally inclined toward doing
evil. Fallen angels study us
intimately to discover weaknesses
and prey upon our weaknesses.
Their objective is to lead us
into sin. They want us to
experience the painful
consequences of sin, like Adam
and Eve, and ultimately receive
the penalty for sin. The
consequences of sin always result
in suffering for someone, such as
illness, painful loss and
separation, self-loathing,
loneliness, and insatiable
appetites for things that bring
joy or happiness. The
penalty for sin is eternal death.
Read Hebrews 11: 25, 26 and
seriously consider if the
consequences and penalty for sin
are a fair exchange for enjoying
the pleasures of sin for a short
time.
The Cancer of
Sin
When a majority of
people ignore or reject the voice
of the Holy Spirit, society
spirals downhill quickly. When
the next generation arrives,
society races downhill even
faster because the new generation
has fewer inhibitions toward
wrongdoing. Therefore, with
each passing generation, society
accelerates toward hopeless
degeneracy and decadence. God
does step in from time to time
and slows this degeneracy by
reducing or eliminating certain
populations, thus cauterizing the
cancer of sin.
The Bible teaches
that people can be grossly evil
and not know it. If God Himself
were to enter each household and
clearly point out each sinful
thought, word, and action, he
would be thrown out immediately.
Unfortunately, most people are
ignorant of God’s will and
His righteousness, and within the
confines of our natural
rebellion, we will do everything
possible to remain ignorant.
Billions of people have no
knowledge that their thoughts,
ways, and actions are exceedingly
offensive to God. We are born
into sin’s pigpen and we
have comfortably adapted to the
constant stench 9the customs and
ways) of the sty. Pig farmers
cannot smell the pungent and
repulsive odor of their pigpens,
and neither can a sinner detect
his true condition before God
without enlightenment from the
Holy Spirit.
God Does
Something That Causes People to
Hate Him and Curse Him
God’s ways
are predictable because he is
changeless. (Malachi 3:6) Unlike
Lucifer, God is not arbitrary,
obsessive, paranoid, capricious,
double-minded, or impulsive.
Although we cannot understand
everything about Him, there are
many things we can understand if
we take the time. We can be
sure that God is a God of love
because His actions at Calvary
speak clearly. (John 3:16) When
4,000 years of Bible history
(from Creation to the first
century A.D.) are reviewed, it is
easy to conclude that God is
infinitely wise, infinitely
intelligent, very careful, very
deliberate, very thoughtful, very
patient, and very nurturing. When
we study the plan of salvation,
we observe that in terms of
kindness, God has no equal. These
properties of God’s
character are important to
understand because He
consistently does something which
causes people to hate and curse
Him.
Because God is
changeless, he has discernable
patterns of behavior. I would
like to investigate one pattern
of behavior from the Old
Testament: When groups of
people reach an intolerable level
of degenerate and decadent
behavior so that even extended
grace has no redemptive effect,
God always responds with
destruction. I call this
pattern, The Full Cup
Trinciple.*
Consider these application: A God
of love drowned the whole world
in Noah’s day. A God of love
burned Sodom and Gomorrah to the
ground. A God of love caused the
walls and buildings of Jericho to
fall and bury most of the
inhabitants of the city. A God of
love empowered King
Nebuchadnezzar to take Israel
captive, destroy God’s
temple, and reduce the City of
David to ashes. A God of love
empowered Cyrus and Darius to
overtake the mighty city of
Babylon. A God of love empowered
Alexander the Great to destroy
the Persian Empire. The same God
of love will, at the right time,
release the demons from the
spirit realm allowing them to
overtake the wicked and dominate
those who insisted on ignorance
and defiance. (For an in-depth
study on this topic, please see
Chapter 2 in my book, “Warning!
Revelation is about to be
fulfilled.)
When dealing with
ignorant and arrogant people, God
consistently follows The Full
Cup Principle. When God sees
that a future generation has no
possibility for happiness because
of the current generation’s
degeneracy and decadence, He
sends redemptive judgments. If
these judgments cannot achieve
repentance and reformation, He
sends totally destructive
judgments. This pattern is
described in the Bible in several
places. For example, see
Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, and
Ezekiel 14.
We need to take a
closer look at these two steps:
1. When a nation
reaches a point where the
majority of its people refuse to
listen to the voice of the Holy
Spirit, when a majority falls
into idolatry, greed, hatred,
meanness, rage, gluttony, and
sexual immorality, God knows that
recovery is impossible on a human
scale. Therefore, He takes action
with redemptive judgments so
that, if possible, that nation
might repent and reform. God’s
love and interest in the future
generation is just as great as
His love and interest in the
present generation. Therefore, if
a nation will repent and reform,
it can once again enjoy the land
which God gave it to inhabit, and
future generations will have a
chance to hear the voice off the
Holy Spirit and live upright
lives.
Of course,
redemptive judgments always bring
suffering, heartache, and pain. During
these judgments, some people do
wake up and discover their true
condition in God’s sight.
They repent of their sins and
reform. Corporately speaking,
however, Bible history reveals
this outcome is rare. The city of
Nineveh is the only group of
people who come to my mind who
repented, but their repentance
was short-lived and the city was
only spared from destruction for
160 years. Most of the time,
ignorant and arrogant people
curse God on account of His
plagues, and they stubbornly
refuse to see any correlation
between their behavior and His
judgments. This is why
destruction is the only solution.
Isaiah wrote, “My soul
yearns for you in the night; in
the morning my spirit longs for
you. When your judgments come
upon earth, the people of the
world learn righteousness. Though
grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness
they go on doing evil and regard
not the majesty of the
Lord.” (Isaiah 26: 9,
10)
2. After sending
redemptive judgments, God waits
to see what a nation will do.
(See Daniel 5: 18-31) If the
people of that nation are
unwilling to turn away from their
wickedness, God responds by
sending a destroyer to utterly
destroy that nation. We see this
process in the Old Testament
several times. For example,
speaking about the destruction of
ancient Babylon, God said to
Jeremiah “’But when
the seventy years [of
Israel’s captivity] are
fulfilled, I will punish the king
of Babylon and his nation, the
land of the Babylonians, for
their guilt,’ declares the
Lord, ‘and will make it
desolate forever. I will bring
upon that land all the things I
have spoken against it, all that
is written in this book and
prophesied by Jeremiah against
all the nations. They themselves
will be enslaved by many nations
and great kings; I will repay
them according to their deeds and
the work of their
hands.’” (Jeremiah
25: 12-14, insertion mine)
The Seven
trumpets
I believe every
nation on Earth has descended to
a level of degeneracy and
decadence that cannot be curved
or reversed. The whole world is
sick with a fatal virus, and no
cure or solution is possible.
Therefore, The Full Cup
Principle is about to be
invoked. God’s wrath is
coming. When the appointed hour
arrives, God will release four
angels who have been given power
to hurt the Earth (Revelation 7:
1-4) and four horrific judgments
will strike Earth in quick
succession. These judgments are
described in Revelation 8. They
will be redemptive in nature;
that is, some will come to their
senses and repent of their wicked
ways realizing there is a God.
God’s judgments will also
have the effect of separating
sheep 9humble and repentant
people) from goats 9arrogant and
defiant people). I do not have
the words to describe the global
destruction that will be caused
by the first four judgments. However,
to offer some perspective, the
Bible indicates in Revelation 6:8
that 25% of the world’s
population will be killed when
God’s wrath is released
(1.75+ billion people). The
misery index created by the first
four judgments will cause
billions of people to hate God
and curse Him.
“The
Demons Are Coming” and The
Full Cup Principle
Today, Earth has
become hopelessly decadent. Bible
prophecy reveals the time has
come when God will once again
implement The Full Cup
Principle. Prior to the Great
Tribulation, God will select and
empower 144,000 people as His
spokespersons. Then, over a
period of 64(?) days God will
send four redemptive judgments
(these are described in
Revelation 8). These
four judgments will destroy much
of our planet and kill 1.75
billion people. Their purpose is
to get the full attention of
every survivor so that each
person may thoughtfully consider
God’s Words, spoken only by
the 144,000. Many people will
hate God and go to their deaths
cursing Him.
Nevertheless, God
will wait for 890(?) days; there
will still be many people who
refuse to listen to the voice of
the Holy Spirit. Therefore, God
worsens the situation. He
releases Lucifer and his angels
from their spirit realm. God
sends a destroyer who is eager to
destroy the world. God does this
so that in the process, some of
those stubbornly wicked people
will wake up and realize there
are only two options in life. We
either obey the voices of demons
or we obey the voice of the Holy
Spirit. A few people will
discover this profound truth and
repent of their ignorance and
rebellion. Next month, I
will attempt to explain why it is
only our response to the Holy
Spirit which determines our
eternal destiny.
Larry Wilson
